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According to the latest figures from Public Health England, there are now 47,806 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the UK.

And 4,934 people have now died after testing positive for Covid-19.

The broadcast was produced by BBC Studios Events and other staff were in another room connected by speakers.

The Queen had only made three previous appearances during troubled times.

Speeches were broadcast after the Queen Mother's death in 2002, ahead of Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral in 1997 and about the first Gulf War in 1991.

The monarch has been staying at her Berkshire home of Windsor Castle, with the Duke of Edinburgh, after she moved to the royal residence on March 19, earlier than normal for the Easter period, as a precaution.

Buckingham Palace announced in March that in consultation with the Medical Household and Government, a number of public events with large numbers of people due to have been attended by the Queen and other members of the royal family in the coming months would be cancelled or postponed.

The monarch and her family have been conducting some of their royal duties by telephone or video link, with the Prince of Wales opening the new NHS Nightingale Hospital in east London on Friday remotely from his Scottish home.